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THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Kechanical College of Texas and the city of College Station, is gablished three times weekly from September to June, issued Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings ; also it is published weekly from June through August. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Ine., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Pranciseo. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-S444. Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief George Puermann Associate Editor Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist P. B. Pierce, Phil Levine Proof Readers Photography Department Phil Golman Photographic Editor Jack Jones, T. J. Burnett, G. W. Brown, Joe Golman, John Blair Assistant Photographers Sports Department Hub Johnson Sports Editor Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor Mike Haikin, W. P. Oxford Sports Assistants SATURDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF Earle A. Shields Managing Editor T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors Will 0. Brimberry W. C. Carter Don Gabriel Reportorial Staff Charles Babcock, Herbert Haile, Paul Haines, Carl Van Hook, J. J. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Beverly Miller, Ehrhard Mittendorf, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison. What’s Happened? WHAT'S HAPPENED to the Aggie spirit, the sense of fair play and of fine sportsmanship ? Some thing radical is wrong when Aggies at a basketball game are guilty of booing an opponent making a good play or creating a disturbance while an op ponent makes a free shot or, in particular, throwing an apple core onto the court. The chief talking point and most publicized asset of the cadet corps is the spirit. What sort of spirit do these stunts represent? Isn’t it obvious that this is wrong—terribly wrong? A player crouches for a shot—someone yells and he misses. What’s his loss is our gain. Oh yeah! Think that one over. What about our reputation and how will that yell affect our reputation? You figure that one out. All But the Shouting WITH FINAL EXAMS the semester will be ended. Most students will pass, but some will fail. That some will fail is sad but inevitable. But failing a course is not disastrous. Naturally no one enjoys failing, but if the best effort has been expended, there is no crime attached. So you failed a course. So what? You did the best you could under the circumstances and that is that. It is too late after the exam to cry or to spend time worrying about having failed. Buck up, forget the past, sign up for the course for next semester, tighten your belt, put a grin on your face, laugh, and then get to work. Epitaph “I’LL MISS HIM,” says the old man of a classmate just passed on. For what a multitude of good citizens that simple phrase has been an adequate epitaph. No, our friend had not lived Tor himself alone. He had unselfishly helped others, had helped in social life, the religious life, the rural organiza tions of the community—and so with his passing he will be missed. And then we got to wondering whether it might not be well perhaps for all of us to ask ourselves a question—the question as to whether when our own time or passing comes, asomebody will use that good old country phrase so suggestive of the fragrance of a well-spent life, “He will be missed.” Or will somebody merely remark, “Yep, knowed pretty well how to make and save money; left the family pretty well fixed.” Mexico IN THE UNITED STATES, says the Manitou Mes senger at St. Olaf college,, an egg thrown at a pres idential condidate rates the headlines in all news papers. In Mexico the incident probably would have been dismissed immediately because of the thrower’s inaccui’acy. Which is by way of introducing a collegiate dis cussion of United States relations with the neighbor to the south. With few exceptions, the view of under graduate editorialists is skeptical, resembling in tone the recent observation of the Daily Nebraskan: “Mexico, long suspected of being a hotbed of fascist sentiment and fifth column activity, evidences WHAT SEEMS TO BE a sincere desire to rid herself of anti-American elements. AT LEAST OFFICIAL MEXICO ANNOUNCES SUCH A POLICY. The Mexican declaration of fact and policy is hearten ing. A large country, and one so close to our own, Mexico would be a powder-horn of revolt against western world peace if its government became in timidated to fascist influence.” Another midwestem publication, the Daily Kansan, is similarly far from convinced. “Mexican politics being what they are,” observes the Kansan, “it is somewhat difficult to swallow the recent ex planation by President Cadenas that refusal to grant concessions to the Japanese was based on “continental solidarity’.” “Many veteran observers,” the Daily Iowan joins in, “recall with no pleasure a Mexican action which foreclosed on property held by American oil companies in Mexico.” It would be well, for the furtherance of good relations, says the Iowan, “to establish some kind of solidarity on this score, pre ferably a just one for the oil companies.” More willing to accept Mexico’s declaration of good faith is the Indiana Daily Student, which feels that Mexico has “answered her critics in a way to stifle even the most bitter. Her action is a com mendable example of attempts by South and Central American countries to mold the Western Hemisphere into a ‘united front’ against all interlopers.” A Michigan Daily writer notes that “the United States is making strained efforts to treat Mexico with the same respect accorded Canada. Now plans are being made for an elaborate defense ‘understand ing.’ Reports indicate the United States intends giving Mexico funds for improvement of naval bases which could be used as stations for United States ships; that Mexica air bases might be enlarged and made available for United States planes defending the Canal Zone and the Gulf of Mexico. Included in the proposed plan are possible transfer of four United States destroyers to Mexico, mechanization of the Mexican army with United States financial aid, and exchange of naval, air and army officers. “Why the United States sliould transfer four destroyers to Mexico instead of using them itself to patrol Mexican waters is not clear. It is obvious who will profit by the exchange of officers. And the United States should think several times before mechanizing the army of a country whose imme diately history is saturated with blood violently shed. In fact, “the University of Michigan editorial ist believes,” great care should be taken in planning the whole general co-operation with Mexico. Mex ico has had a particularly turbulent history, and one can only speculate on her future course. Not that Mexico is likely to turn totalitarian or be especially dangerous if she did; but the United States does not have surplus funds and war materials to give to nations of fluctuating political positions.” This Collegiate World The player’s chance of being delt a straight flush in a poker game is only one in 64,974 times (if the deck ain’t stacked). And the chance of getting 13 spades in one hand in bridge is but one in 700 trillion times, how ever many that is. So figures an Eastern New Mexico college Ph. D., professor in mathematics, following a Dart mouth professor’s use in his class of chances in a crap-shooting session. Intrigued by the utilization of homely happen ings in higher mathematics, the ENMC professor fascinated his students with problems dealing with bridge, poker, and slot machines, with the slot machines for once coming out at the losing end. For students found that the slot machine offers a sure chance to lose money. Slot machines usually afford one chance in eight of winning on any given play, but because human beings like to gamble and ordinarily con tinue to play their winnings back, they apparently have only one chance in 100 of coming out ahead, said the professor. There are 84,480,000,000,000 possible com binations in a regular 52-card deck, the goggle- eyed students learned. In poker there is but one chance in 4,165 deals of getting four of a kind, one in 694 of getting a full house, one in 509 of getting a flush, one in 47 of getting three of a kind. What started it all was the Dartmouth pro fessor’s problem in crap-shooting: The caster rolls two dice and wins if (a) the sum be 7 or 11; (b) if the sum be 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 and if this same sum reappears before seven is ever seen. To obviate the odds against the caster, a dishonest caster employs two dice, one true and the other loaded so that a certain number always appears at the top. What should this number be in order to give him the maximum advantage ? —Associated Collegiate Press FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say HERE IS A MAN who was born in an obscure vil lage, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village. He worked as a carpenter until he was thirty; then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never set his foot inside a big city. He never travel ed two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He never did one of the things that usually ac company greatness. He had no credentials but him self. He had no special training for his work in the world; he had only the naked power of his divine manhood. While he was still a young man the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One denied him. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross be tween two thieves, and while he was dying, his exe- cutioneers gambled for the only piece of property he had—his coat. When he was dead, he was taken down and laid in a grave borrowed from a pitying friend. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today he is the central figure of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, all put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as that one solitary life. —Anonymous The Collegiate Review Cadets at the Citadel, South Carolina military college, come from 33 v states, three territories, the District of Columbia and one foreign country. Middlesex university has completed construct ion of the three-story brick building of its school of veterinary medicine at a cost of $200,000. Willard Hayden, president of Charles Hayden foundation, recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Tufts college medical school to establish scholar ships. Associated Students of the University of Idaho last year spent $107,031 and finished the year $1,080 in the black. Mankato (Minn.) State Teachers college has recently finished a student lounge which will serve as an all-purpose room. —Associated Collegiate Press “That is not too large. My husband is a big manl" “TIN PAN ALLEY” is the story of just that place in New York be fore the days of jazz. It has some of the old familiar pre-war love songs in it like “Good-bye Broad way, Hello France,” “The Sheik of Araby,” “Honeysuckle Rose,” and “K-K-K-Katy.” These are in cluded to sort of stir the heart and create atmosphere, which they do well. There was bound to be some pro fessional jealousy when two major stars like Alice Faye and Betty Grable are put in the same film as sisters and with such nearly paral lel roles. The competition does them both good because they have to put out their best efforts. Twentieth Century-Fox tried to take advantage of both their vocal and visual attractions by having them sing together and putting on cellophane harem costumes. Alice Faye’s more mature voice wins out with most of the songs but young Betty Grable wins most of the vis ual attraction. Jack Oakie and John Payne play BRAIN TWISTER By R. R. Lyle The Game of NIM In this game two players play alternately with a number of pen nies. The challenger being very polite always insists that he would pick up the first penny or pen nies. The rules are that each play er must pick up at least one penny and may pick up as many as five. The player who picks up the last penny loses the game. Suppose they play with 21 pennies, how can the challenger win? (Answer: The chhllenger men tally divides the pennies into groups of 1, 6, 6, and 2. Since he plays first, he picks up 2 pennies. Then, however many his oppenent picks, the challenger picks up the com plement of 6. For example, if the opponent picks up one, the chal lenger takes 5; if the opponent takes two, the challenger takes four, and so on. Each of the three groups of six is thus exhausted and the opponent is left with the last penny and the challenger wins. Summer Ag Course Receives National Recognition The 1940 summer course offered by the Agronomy Department of A. & M. received national recogni tion from the Soil Conservation Service of the United States De partment of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. The article “Agronomic Instruct ion for Midern Agriculture” writ ten by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the Agronomy Department, was published in the January 1941 is sue of “Soil Conservation.” Dr. Trotten has also received several complimentary letters about the courses his department offered last summer and the article he has written about them. One of the letters came from N. P. Stephen son, head of the Regional Training Section, and another letter from the State Coordinator, P. H. Wal- ser. The words received from Stephen son were, “We appreciate the fine work the Agronomy Department has been doing under your leader ship, and I am particularly pleased to see the work so ably presented to the readers of ‘Soil Conserva tion’.” the parts of ambitious young song writers of the pre-war era. Alice falls for Payne and plugs them with her singing until the war gets both the writers. Betty casts off from the team and does not occupy such a prominent spot before the camera. This show well brings back the spirit of the days before the war as it has been painted to us. This is a good musical, not so light as to be frivilous nor so heavy as to be operatic. “BITTER SWEET” at the As sembly Hall is another chapter in the singing story of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. It is in Technicolor, and if this picture is an example of the latest develop ments in the film, it is definitely improving with better color repro duction. The main story portrays them as a poor but happily married couple living in Vienna. Husband Eddy tries to get an operetta published and wife MacDonald attracts the unwelcome attentions of George Sanders. Eddy gets killed in a duel with Sanders, who is an Austrian cavalry officer and as good a vil lain as ever. Due to the common setting of a Vienna cafe, the trill ings of the two singers does not have all the heavy operatic quali ties which usually accompany their performances. If you like Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, you’ll like this one. What’s Showing AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 6:45 & 8:30—“DREAM ING OUT LOUD,” with Lum and Abner, Frances Langford, Frank Craven, Phil Harris and Bobs Wat. son. Monday, Tuesday 6:45—“BIT TER SWEET,” starring Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, George Sanders, Ian Hunter and Felix Bressart. Wednesday, Thursday 6:45— “DULCY,” featuring Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Billie Burke and Lynn Carver. Friday 3:30 & 6:45—“MEXICAN SPITFIRE OUT WEST,” with Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods and- Cecil Kellaway. Saturday 6:45 & 8:30—“RIVER’S END,” With Dennis Morgan and George Tobias. Monday, Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45— “FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT,” featuring Joel McCrea, Loraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders and Robert Benchley. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “THE LADY IN QUESTION,” featuring Rita Hay worth, Brian Aherne, Glen Ford and Irene Rich. Saturday midnight, Sunday, Monday—“TIN PAN ALLEY,” starring Alice Faye, Bettye Gra ble, Jack Oakie, John Payne and Allen Jenkins. Tuesday—“MELODY IN THE MOONLIGHT,” with Johnny Downs, Barbara Allen (Vera Va gue), Jerry Collona and Jane Fra- zee. Wednesday, Thursday—“THE 39 STEPS,” featuring Robert Donat and Madelaine Carroll. Friday, Saturday—“NIGHT IN THE TROPICS,” starring Alan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott and Robert Cummings. Saturday midnight, Sunday, Mon day—“BLACK MIDNIGHT,” with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stan ley Ridges and Anne Gwynne. Dairy Husbandry Department Has Progressed Steadily in 39 Years Thirty-nine years of progress. That’s the record set by the Dairy Husbandry department since it’s beginning in 1902. Located in the old Agricultural Building, which is now the Science Hall, the Dairy Husbandry depart, ment at that time was under the supervision of the Animal Hus bandry department. The depart ment became independent in 1912, with J. L. Thomas, now with the Extension Service, in charge. Since that time the Dairy Hus bandry department has grown to be one of the largest departments on the campus. With a staff of four professors and eight graduate student assistants, it boasts a rec ord enrollment of ten graduate stu dents, 150 under-graduates and over 150 short course students. The activities of the department are not confined to the policy of instructing students for the de partment has three principal func- graduate, undergraduate, and short course students in the several branches of the dairy industry; (2) providing dairy products for the college dining hall; (3) assist ing, through the cooperation with Experiment Station and Extension Service, in the development of dairying in the state. For instruction and commer cial purposes, the department op erates a dairy farm of approxi mately 500 acres and a herd of about 300 head of registered Jer seys and Holsteins. This herd, in cluding 150 milking cows produces over 150,000 gallons of milk an nually, most of which is used at the college dining halls. The av erage mature equivalent production record of all cows in the herd is well over 500 pounds of butterfat per year. For the purposes of in struction as well as to provide stu dent employment, most of the work with the herd and in the creamery is done by student labor. At pres ent over 40 students are employed on the farm. Operated also as a class labora tory and as a commercial unit, the creamery last year handled over 2% million pounds of milk, most of which went to the dining hall in the form of bottled milk. With the increased enrollment this year, the dining halls have used from 15 to 17 thousand half pints of milk daily. In addition, the cream ery puts out ice cream, butter, cheese and a small amount of plain condensed skim milk as well as buttermilk, chocolate milk and cream. All of this is handled in a modem, well equipped plant. (Continued on Page 6) Courses Submitted by Departments for the 1941 Summer Session FIRST TERM A. & S.—201, 202, 401, 310, 409, 416, 502 Aero.—201, 211, 212, 311, 312 Ag. Ec.—571 or 572, 502, 429, 301, 423, 514, 438, 312, 314 Ag. Ed.—501, 502, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 515 Ag. Eng.—305, 322, 511, 514, 517 Agr.—105, 301, 314, 413, 417, 418, 505, 509, 511 A. H.—107, 202, 203, 303, 307, 416, 505b, 505c, 505d, 511, 512, 575 Arch.—109, 111, 205, 455 Biol.—101, 206, 503, 513, 521, 523 Chem.—101, 103, 102, 206, 207, 212, 214, 216 C. E.—300s, 305, 206 C. M.—107, 108 D. H.—420, 501 Econ.—203, 311, 315, 316, 317, 318, 403, 416, 507 or 501 Educ.—121, 321, 426, 427, 508, 510, 511, 512 E. E.—208, 517 E. D.—Ill, 112, 124 Engl.—103, 203, 231, 401, 415 7nto.—201, 507 or 508 F. G.—400s Gen.—301 Geol.—299s Hist—105, 306, 322, 424 Hort—317, 501, 503, 507 I. Ed.—406, 419, 510, 518, 520b, 520c, 521, 507b, 508, 524 Land.—415 Math.—101, 102, 103, 104, 203, 204, 409, 507 M. E.—102, 201, 212, 309, 310 Lang. 101, 201 (or 205) M. S. E.—None Pet. E.—327s P. E.—207, 405 Phys.—201, 203 P. H.—303, 501, 503 Psy.—301 'R. S.—415, 416, 315, 501 V. A.—Ill, 213 V. H.—493 V. M. S.—351, 361, 371, 471 V. P.—481 V. P. B.—341 V. P. P.—121, 333 SECOND TERM A. & S.—202, 301, 303, 503 Aera.—211, 212, 311, 312 Ag. Ec.—305, 516, 400s, 426, 425, 312, 314 Ag. Ed.—501, 505, 508 Ag. Eng.—201, 424, 413, 503, 509 Agr.—105, 301, 308, 318, 413, 417 A. H.—409, 418, 424, 431, 505a, 571 Arch.—418s, 419s Biol.—107, 504, 522, 524 Chem.—102, 104, 400s C. E.—305, 311, 315, 336, 201 C. M.—None D. H.—202, 508 E co n.—204, 316, 403, 408, 420, 502, 506 Educ.—321, 322, 504, 515, 516 E . E.—305, 431, 510, 512 E. D.—HI, H2, 124 E n gl.—104, 210, 232, 401, 416 Ento.—None F. G.—300s. Gen.—505, 515, 517 Geol.—300s, 400s, 509 Hist.—106, 306, 316, 318 Hort—318, 502, 504, 508 I. Ed.—507a, 514, 520e, 522 -None ... -101 102, 103, 104, 203, 204, 305, 410, 511 -102, 212, 309, 310, 313, 320, 338, 403, 404, 517 im 9f>1 for 205) P. E.—314, 406 Phys.—202, 204 P. H.—201, 401 Psy.—None R. S.—201, 407, 311, 511 V. A.—112 V. H.—None V. M. S.—352, 362, 372s, 472 V. P.—482 V. P. B.—341 V. P. P.—122, 334 • • » ■* > * r <■ • • 4 * fc « 4 * % V * %